British holidaymakers’ Dubai nightmare: Family sleep on shopping mall floor after flooding leaves them stranded as others ‘left in limbo’ as they battle for flights home amid huge travel chaos [Video]

04:30 EDT 17 Apr 2024, updated 05:06 EDT 17 Apr 2024

A British family have been forced to sleep on the floor of a shopping mall in Dubai overnight after being caught in flooding that has caused travel chaos in the Emirate.

The city was left under feet of water after year and a half’s worth of rain was dumped on it in a matter of hours, with people forced to abandon their luxury cars in the streets. 

Jonathan Rodgers, who is in the city with his wife and 10-year-old daughter, told MailOnline they were forced to sleep on the floor of the Mall of the Emirates overnight as rising waters made it impossible to leave.

The family-of-three, along with dozens of others, became trapped when the roads around the building were flooded and all Dubai Metro services were cancelled due to the conditions.

He said they had been left on their own with ‘no information’ for hours on end with …